It’s not often you get to start from scratch putting together a new learning platform for a University. Most learning technologists and digital leaders have experienced the procurement of a replacement VLE, or a migration or upgrade. It is rare that we get to work with partners to design from the start, thinking about the …
Category: People, Place and Work
improving accessibility
Every year we take a snapshot of accessibility in our VLE. Over the summer 3,508 documents across 1,441 courses from across the University were reviewed against a defined selection of accessibility criteria by our excellent team of interns. The results were encouraging: 87.6% of documents reviewed were named appropriately (i.e. so that users can anticipate …
The promise of video
I’ll be speaking at Kaltura Connect Education Track 2023 – EMEA | Kaltura 28th November, London I will speak about ‘The Promise of Video’ What do we expect from our media platforms? What do our students and users expect? How can we ensure that the promise of a generation of video is realised? During academic …
The promise of video
I’ll be speaking at Kaltura Connect Education Track 2023 – EMEA | Kaltura 28th November, London I will speak about ‘The Promise of Video’ What do we expect from our media platforms? What do our students and users expect? How can we ensure that the promise of a generation of video is realised? During academic …
Ada Lovelace Day 2023
Thank you to everyone who came to our Ada Lovelace Day celebrations -to listen to talks, make badges, edit Wikipedia, and generally celebrate women in STEM. Thank you as well to those who walked the Women in STEM trail and took their pictures with the inspiring women featured. Special thanks to our guest …
Ada Lovelace Day 2023
Thank you to everyone who came to our Ada Lovelace Day celebrations -to listen to talks, make badges, edit Wikipedia, and generally celebrate women in STEM. Thank you as well to those who walked the Women in STEM trail and took their pictures with the inspiring women featured. Special thanks to our guest …
menopause at work
I was delighted to be invited out to our beautiful Easter Bush Campus at Roslin this week to deliver a session on the hot topic of menopause. We talked about feeling the rage and laughed about losing your nouns. Thank you to everyone who came along. If you would like to organise a session like …
menopause at work
I was delighted to be invited out to our beautiful Easter Bush Campus at Roslin this week to deliver a session on the hot topic of menopause. We talked about feeling the rage and laughed about losing your nouns. Thank you to everyone who came along. If you would like to organise a session like …
to see ourselves as others see us
Does everyone at the University experience our services and the workplace in similar ways? (guest post by Lilinaz Rouhani, Data and Equality Officer) “When I first started in this role, this was my guiding question. I read reports and papers, joined staff networks, and started drafting my own surveys to find an answer to this …
to see ourselves as others see us
Does everyone at the University experience our services and the workplace in similar ways? (guest post by Lilinaz Rouhani, Data and Equality Officer) “When I first started in this role, this was my guiding question. I read reports and papers, joined staff networks, and started drafting my own surveys to find an answer to this …
AI and ethics, welcoming our robot colleagues
I am delighted that this summer we have 2 student interns working in LTW to help us understand how Chat GPT and Open AIs can help us in our work. We have long welcomed our robot colleagues. We already use AI in our transcriptions and captioning services to add speech to text versions for students, …
AI and ethics, welcoming our robot colleagues
I am delighted that this summer we have 2 student interns working in LTW to help us understand how Chat GPT and Open AIs can help us in our work. We have long welcomed our robot colleagues. We already use AI in our transcriptions and captioning services to add speech to text versions for students, …